In real life, I'm a dad.
— James Spithill
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
— James Mercer
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
— James Levine
I remember watching 'The Muppet Show' in the '70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we're all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things.
— James Bobin
There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'
— Jalen Brunson
If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.
— Jakob Dylan
A lot of the celebrities' kids are Jake Paulers, and so they'll run up and say, 'My dad is this person,' 'My dad is that person.' I'm, like, 'Yo, what's up bro? How are you?'
— Jake Paul
My dad is the opposite of me. He's so outgoing and so loud.
— Jahlil Okafor
My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it’s like, divorce, divorce, divorce.
— Jade Bird
I played at different restaurants with my dad for a good year before I started doing anything on social media. I wanted to hone my craft before I put anything out there.
— Jacob Whitesides
My dad doesn't hug me enough!
— Jack Whitehall
Whenever we got the chance to watch a game with my dad, it was like watching video with an NHL coach.
— Jack Hughes
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
— Jack Bruce
I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
— J. J. Watt
Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.
— J. D. Vance
I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
— J. B. Pritzker
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
— Isabelle Huppert
Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.
— James Snyder
I was lucky to have a great dad.
— James McNerney
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
— James Ellroy
Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't there.
— James Arthur
To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.
My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.
— Jake Tapper
I love being a dad.
— Jake Hager
My dad struggled younger in his life and eventually had become very well settled and bought a nice car for himself. And every now and then I'd take it for a spin and, almost without fail, if I took his car I'd get pulled over.
— Jagmeet Singh
My dad teaches film and has done for 40 years, so I've really grown up in a movie household. All the walls are covered in movie posters, and many of the evening meals at 7:30 revolved around film discussions.
— Jacqui Ainsley
Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.
— Jacob Latimore
I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended up playing at the back of the scrum, No. 8 as well, just picking it up and running with it.
— Jack Butland
I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
— J. K. Simmons
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
— J. C. Watts
I think my dad is highly gender-neutral. If he doesn't like someone, he'll articulate that, and I think it's also part of what resonates about him. He'll say what he's thinking.
— Ivanka Trump
I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential.
— Isabella Rossellini
Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.
— James Packer
It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
— James McCartney
My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.
— James Carville
Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match at Headingley.
— James Anderson
I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I'm so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he's so nervous to meet my dad. It's a head spin.
My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
— Jai Courtney
My dad loves babies. He's really good with them and is a big family man.
— Jade Jagger
Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.
— Jacques Plante
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
— Jackson Browne
I started out playing football in the park with my dad. My dad was a bit of a ball player, but he couldn't really be bothered playing.
— Jack Rodwell
We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
— J. J. Abrams
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
— J. C. Chandor
My dad always has the best advice!
— Iskra Lawrence
